Researcher
and writer (b. 28 November 1954, Ankara – d. 18 December 2002, Ankara). He
graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, School of
Press and Publication (1977). After working as a press counselor at various organizations
for years, he completed his master and doctorate studies at the Institute of
Turkish History of Revolution at Ankara University. He gave lectures on the
principles of Atatürk and history of revolution for twenty years. He was
assassinated at the end the year 2002; however, the perpetrators have not been
identified.
He
studied the near history of the Turkic communities outside Turkey. He made
visits to work on Turkish regions in the Balkans and Central Europe, Turkish
minorities and war cemeteries for purposes of research. He worked in Moscow
between 1995 and 1996 as the counselor in the activities of the Gagauz Turks to
shift to the Latin alphabet, which was a project of the UNDP under the UN. A
part of his research on the teachers charged by Atatürk to go abroad was
published with the title Kemal'in Öğretmenleri (Teachers of Kemal).
He
published numerous articles on Turkic groups outside Turkey, especially on
Crimean Turks. Hablemitoğlu, himself a Crimean Turk in origin, had a rich
archive of İsmail Gaspiralı, one of the outstanding figures of the Crimean
Turks in history. Besides, he made researches on illegal organizations and
German foundations operating in Turkey and abroad, and on the law of
foundations included in the adaptation laws of the European Union, and
participated in several panels and symposiums on these topics at home and
abroad. His wife is Associate Prof. Dr. Songül Hablemitoğlu. He had two
daughters named Kanije and Uyvar.
WORKS:
Yüzbinlerin Sürgünü (Exile of Hundreds of Thousands, 1974), Çarlık Rusyası'nda Türk Kongreleri 1905-1997 (Turkish Congresses in the Russian Tsardom 1905-1997; second edition, 2003), Şefika Gaspiralı ve Rusya'da Türk Kadın Hareketi 1893-1970 (Şefika Gaspiralı and Turkish Women Movement in Russia 1893-1970), Alman Vakıfları ve Bergama Dosyası (The German Foundations and the File of Bergama), Köstebek (The Mole, 2003).
